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I recently started reading a book written about Jack Ma and the creation of Alibaba which is one of the worlds largest online marketplaces. In reading about Jack and his enterprise I came across a couple examples of Ma’s definition of Success that I found to be very grounded, practical, and livable by anyone where he really took that point of success and boiled it down into something tangible, and accessible to everyone.

What I find interesting is that I have been deliberately working with the process of Re-defining and Living Words, and here this man actually did exactly this by coming up with his personal definition of Success that he could live and apply in his world in a way that supported him.

In the book, Ma defined it as follows,

“Success lies not in how much you have accomplished, but in the fact that you have done something, experienced the process, and begun to learn something”

What I like about this definition is it emphasizes not an outcome of good or bad, success or failure, but of THE ACT, the point of taking action and actually doing something – That is the success, the fact that you got off your but and applied yourself.

For me, I have been slowly starting to develop a new body of artwork and so I really relate to this definition of success because for me the most difficult part often is just getting up and DOING SOMETHING, or motivating myself to sit down in front of my canvas and start painting. Where that very action IS the success, not the outcome, but the ACT.

So here I see for myself that to be more successful requires me to take more action. On paper it looks easy, though I do understand that applying and living this definition of success may bring up other dimensions for me to consider and work out.

Okay that’s the point I wanted to Share!

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In this blog I am going to begin opening up the word of ‘Postponement’ as a way to support myself to start seeing how and where I am accepting and allowing myself to Live this word of Postponement in my life and myself.

I do see that this is a word that I do accept and allow myself to participate in and exist as at the moment within my life.

I see this word existing in different areas of my life.

My work, where I put off projects I am working on and think “I don’t have time”

My normal household duties where I allow a resistance towards doing them influence my decision of when I will do them, where I will put them off until after and sometimes to the last minute where then finally I have no choice but to do them. That is a common point with postponement where I will put things off until the last minute where I will experience a resistance or negative energy towards doing things and so then instead of being Self Directive, I will allow myself to be moved and directed by that energy where until I will for instance have piles of laundry that need to get done because I didn’t Direct myself to keep up a flow with doing things regularly. This process of allowing myself to be directed by ENERGY or RESISTANCE towards tasks is what I am seeing as one of the primary reasons for Postponement.

I also find that there is a pattern to my postponement where I will go through ebbs and flows where I will be more directive when things are going well and I am supporting myself and more ‘on top of things’ but then I will start stumbling a bit and kind of getting sucked into energy or emotional experiences where then I allow myself to be directed by my resistance towards doing things and then I start avoiding my daily responsibilities. Ultimately, all this is nothing new. And the Solution is nothing new either. And so then my question is, why then is it existing?

In a way I see that I postpone very important things in my life. Like for instance me pushing through ‘problem patterns’ and changing particular behaviors that I see I am in fact limiting myself through.

So I am seeing here that it is necessary to work with postponement on both an inner as well as outer level. So what does this mean and How can I go about doing this.

Well I am going to do a test run of this where I Deliberately practice stopping my postponement of things in both my inner and outer reality and so here I can utilize Writing and Self Forgiveness to Support in Clearing my INNER SELF so that I am not postponing any inner points that I see are bothering me or occupying me on the within.

And actually this is where I am going to focus initially with Living the correction in relation to the Word Postponement where I actually end up Postponing my SELF SUPPORT. So I can begin with changing this through taking the time each day or each week to really be with myself and work through points in Writing and Self Forgiveness that is HERE and coming up within me. Like for instance establishing a routine where I do some daily writing or more active self support and this even means identifying and working with those RESISTANCES that I see existing in relation to outer tasks and responsibilities as well.

So the Correction Word to Live here I see is the word PRIORITIZING! Because man that is something I really don’t like doing because if I really do that, I can not longer shift those really important things that I am totally resisting down to the bottom of my list. So to LIVE the word PRIORITIZING is to actually WORK on those High Priority Points instead of allowing myself to shift them down the list. And so I can actually LIVE this word PRIORITIZING by directing myself to begin PRYING open those tasks that I resist doing by making sure to keep them at the TOP of my List if they are a Priority and directing myself to even do a some work on them instead of avoiding them all together whcih I see I have done with many things where I will just resist them completely and not even give myself a chance to Get in there.

Okay so will test this and see how it goes. PRYING into my Priorities.

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Today as I was standing in line at the local coffee shop to get myself a cappuccino, I saw a friend of mine; a fellow artist sitting at a table working on his computer. He has had some success as an artist in his career so when ever I see him, I like to chat a bit and just share what’s going on with my own art and see whats up with him. As it turns out we both had actually been facing a similar point recently and also both came to a similar solution on what to do.

For me when I moved here where I live and started creating and selling sculptures at a local gallery, I had basically branched out into the ‘wildlife genre’ of art, something I had never really done before.

I had for the past couple years and considered taking this subject matter into my paintings as well but have held off thus far.

I live in a ‘Resort Town’ and so a lot of the town, including its art scene very much caters to that clientele, and as a result there is a tendency to have artwork that is very commercialized and focused on selling to tourists.

I noticed this right a way and noticed very specific themes and styles of art in the city that I saw as quite commercial and in fact I had all sorts of various judgements and opinions about it. Though I had never ventured to create any of my own variation on these themes which I was essentially using as a benchmark from which to form my own opinions around what they are doing.

So this is really the point I was referring to earlier in this blog about what my artist friend and I had realized about points we both were facing.

We were both looking at beginning a new series of work and there was a common realization that both him and myself shared about why were doing this.

That…

Its easy to judge something, especially if you have never done it yourself.

Yes we perhaps could see ways to improve on what we were seeing, but ultimately, we hadn’t actually physically moved to do it and explore for ourselves these improvements in real physical creations

For me I had so many opinions about what everyone else was doing and one reason I did is because I saw from my own vantage point how “you could do so much more” with it, yet, ‘the problem’ if you want to call it that, was that I was not directing or moving myself to LIVE BY EXAMPLE through by creating and expressing that example for myself as a self expression but had rather just remained more in judgement, and opinion to the point where it was really getting to me that I was spending so much time on these judgements and opinions every time I was seeing this art around me, and yet, had still not moved myself to create my own and to ultimately SHOW MYSELF first and foremost this “so much more” that I saw was possible when looking at these other examples of art I was seeing all around me.

I mean, I could even be deluding myself, and that I may find that once I begin this new series of work, that what I was seeing as different potentials is actually more difficult than I think. But I will never know for sure unless I try it out for myself.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to allow the decision to take a new/different direction in my life sink away into the background where I will accept and allow my already pre-programmed automated behavior patterns to take over and take up all the space and time I have in each day in where here I am not Directing myself to incorporate and implement any new behaviors, actions associated with taking a new direction in my life after I had decided that this is something that I would like to do and so here never actually expanding myself within and as myself and my reality because I just end up repeating the same automated actions and behaviors over and over each day and thus accept and allow the ‘New Point’ which I had decided to make a part of my life sink into the background in a way being drown out by my currently existing automated life pattern and so thus here not effectively Direct myself to in fact Change Myself as the Expansion of myself within incorporating walking and living new behaviors and patterns and actions in my day to day life.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that the new point I am considering is ‘beyond me’ meaning that it is not something that will actually work or that I will be able to do and so here have accepted and allowed myself to use this idea that “I will not be able to do it” as a justification to not deliberately direct myself each day within the necessary tasks and actions to establish the new point within my life as a stable point that is HERE.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe within myself that “in the end I won’t actually change, and I won’t actually be able to implement anything new into my life in a substantial way”.

I commit myself to assist and support myself to incorporate this ‘new point’ into and as myself and my life through by realizing here that to do this must be a Deliberate Action and Actions done consistently in order to in fact ‘re-program’ myself and my life to now incorporate this new point. Within doing this I see that my patterns will change because now I will be incorporating new tasks and patterns into my daily living.

I commit myself to realize that in order to replace ‘automatic behaviors’ with new behaviors I will have to Will myself within and as by taking Deliberate Structured Action Consistently Daily so to carve out a part of my life dedicated to this new task.

I commit myself to see, realize, and understand that I must make time for this new point through by being DELIBERATE in my Actions instead of being Automatic in my actions where I just accept and allow things to play out as usual where I am not really directing myself or am the driver of myself as my self movement throughout the day but am more like a passenger just along for the ride acting out all the pre-programmed automated behaviors, actions, and ways of being, feeling ect, that I have accepted and allowed myself to create as myself and so here within changing this, I must move myself over to the drivers side and actually Deliberately steer and drive myself and make sure I am studying and refining the map so that my Direction is Deliberate and Specific.

So here ultimately I commit myself to assist and support myself to not allow my decision to incorporate a new point into my life just sink back into the background like I have accepted and allowed before but rather to assist and support myself here to walk with this “New Point” in a much more Deliberate and Self Aware stand point, meaning where I commit myself to really making sure that this time I am Specific and Directive within this “new point” because I have seen this point come and go many times which is indicating that I have yet to give it specific direction through by making a DECISION To commit myself to assist and support myself to do this where one practical way I see I can do this is through by allocating a specific amount of time/hours that I dedicate to this weekly where I see that previously I did not do that effectively enough and then sure enough the point just faded away.

And so

I commit myself to assist and support myself to dedicate a specific amount of time to this “new point” each week/day so to ensure that I am working with the point actively in a structured way to ensure that there is movement and direction taking place as an accumulative process of and as step by step actions and attention that I give to the point to in fact test the practicality and effectiveness of this point instead of just giving this point random attention at random times and then thinking “ok well its not really working” as the point eventually fade into the background due to me not in fact making the decision to be as Directive and Deliberate as I am able to and that is in fact NECESSARY within walking and testing/implementing a point into myself and my reality effectively.

What I have been finding is that my days are repetitive and within this I experience a point of me being ‘stuck in a rut’ with not allot changing. And within this also it feels like “there is no end in sight”. So this is the point that I am going to investigate here tonight.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to not realize that if I do not move and direct myself, nothing will actually happen within my life.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realize that I am the one who determines the experience of myself in and as my life where ‘my life’ is the direct result of my application and self movement.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to want ‘something to happen to me’ as a point to ‘trigger me to move’ or ‘instigate me to move’ instead of me standing within and as the Principle of becoming, being, and living “myself as the motor of me” from the perspective of seeing, realizing, and understanding that nothing will happen if I do not in fact initiate, move, direct the point where I become the source of the movements, of the happenings that is my life through and as the practical Physical Self Movement of Me.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to miss the point that I am in fact the source of my life at the moment, and so here I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to go into a form of ‘disempowerment’ In relation to my life and how it is going at the moment, instead of directing myself from the starting point and realizing that I am Directly Responsible for the current ‘make-up’ of my life and so thus to from here investigate ways in which I can move/direct myself within and as my life to support creation of my life in a way that is more effective.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to exist within and as ‘waiting’, waiting for something to happen in my life, missing the point of me actually taking responsibility for my life in each moment.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to sit and wait for ‘something to happen to me’ in and as my life and then wonder why ‘nothing is happening’ instead of changing my approach to this where instead of ‘waiting for something to happen’ I assist and support myself to try different things out as different points, projects, and tasks of self movement that I may not have necessarily tried before or that I have not been doing actively, as a point of taking responsibility for myself within my life so that I can become and live as the creator of my life instead of me waiting around for ‘something to happen’ and then wonder why nothing is happening missing the fact that ‘nothing happening’ is a Direct Relationship to ‘doing nothing’ and so here I commit myself to assist and support myself to change this relationship as how I have accepted and allow myself to live/exist each day where here rather I commit myself to align myself to Directive Action and thus stop the behavior of ‘waiting for something to happen’ but meanwhile doing nothing.

When and as I see myself going into the mode of ‘waiting for something to happen’ or where I am ‘looking for some sign in my life to trigger some kind of movement or inspiration or direction within me’ to when I see myself existing within and as these points, I commit myself to stop this accepted and allowed behavior as I see that within this I am in fact ‘not doing anything’ but ‘waiting for something to happen’ and thus not Standing and Directing myself within and as the Principle that I am the Directive, Creative Principle of myself and my reality where in and as standing as the Directive, Creative principle of myself and my reality, there is no reason to simply ‘look for something to happen to me’ but that rather I instead Live from the starting point of Moving Myself as the Source of my Life/Self Creation where I become my own engine so to speak, realizing that “nothing Is going to move me” and that HERE I must assist and support me to simply MOVE, DIRECT Me and not wait for some feeling, some experience, some trigger, some sign, some thought, some picture in my head to motive me or instigate me to move and so

I commit myself to assist and support myself to become my own instigator of Self Movement and Self Direction.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed my experience of myself to dictate my Self Movement.

Rather

I commit myself to assist and support myself to when and as I am ‘not really feeling like I can do anything’ or that ‘I am not really up for doing something’ or that there is simply nothing here that is instigating me to move to in these moments, take a breath and bring myself HERE within and as my Physical Body. Here I commit myself to see, realize and understand that to correct this point I must practice DIRECTING MYSELF as a point of taking responsibility for my own Self Creation and no more accepting and allowing myself to base self movement on a feeling/experience/mood/trigger as I see that in doing this, I often will end up ‘waiting around for something to happen’ where in fact nothing is happening because I did not take the initiative to move/direct me as a matter of Principle within the realization that what is happening in my life is in DIRECT Relationship to what I have Directed to happen and so thus ‘nothing happening’ is showing me that I have not been effective in standing, directing and moving me as the SOURCE Of my Self Movement/Creation . And so I commit myself to Change my relationship to “living’ from one of “doing nothing and waiting for something to happen” to Investigating ways to move myself and to assist and support myself to move/direct and thus create myself and my reality as a matter of PRINCIPLE. The Principle that My life is a DIRECT Result of Who I am and How Live and What I Direct as myself as the Self Movement of me in every breath day to day.

I am going to continue here opening up a point I have been exploring this past week and have been looking at in recent blogs.

This ‘Point’ can be seen within the question – “Why do we wait until the last possible minute to do things”

This I see more specifically relates to responsibilities and/or obligations where I have noticed that I will tend to be more likely to postpone such points instead of doing them straight away.

So I am here looking at this point of “Why do I wait until the last possible minute to do things?”

I have noticed that this pattern of ‘waiting till the last possible minute’ has become more of theme in my life in terms of where I am noticing this more, and so here am assisting and supporting myself to give this point Direction so that I can align my Living in a way where I am more ‘pro-active’ in my daily living rather than often waiting for things to get to the stage of where it’s like ‘the last possible moment’ or where ‘it’s almost too late’ or where for instance now because I have waited for so long before directing a particular point that now there is stress within me when I finally ‘decide’ to direct the points because I have placed myself in a position where I have very little margin for error, or not allot of ‘breathing room’ because I waited until the last possible moment to direct the point instead of directing the points when I noticed them coming up in a manner where I give myself ample time to complete/direct the points so I can take my time with it and simply do a thorough effective job.

Within waiting until the last possible moment to direct myself within my responsibilities and obligations I see that I am existing in a point where I am being directed by my reality instead of being Self-Directive.
In essence waiting until the physical conditions of my reality are demanding that I now move myself in a way pushing/forcing or even motivating me into action instead of Me being and becoming this point of Self Movement for myself where I develop the point/pattern of becoming pro-active in directing myself in my responsibilities and obligations which I see is where I develop the ability to actually do things when they come up instead of allowing myself to perpetuate the pattern of going through the progressive stages of procrastination where I will wait, and wait some more, and wait just a little more where I will allow this process of procrastination to become my normal way of directing myself in my reality.

So I must look at why I do this, and thus to re-align myself to move from intention to immediacy – where I stop ‘intending to do something eventually’ and simply ‘immediately direct’ a point when it comes up.

I will continue in my next blog with walking the Self Forgiveness In relation to this point.

I would now like to take the time to bring through an important aspect of Art and Artists that has actually been missed in this world.

I am certain that many of you reading this have at some point in your lives come across the phrase “we are all artists” or simply, the point that for instance everybody has their unique talent or gift and are creative and thus an Artist in their own right where this term should not only be designated to describe for instance the painter standing at the easel, but to also encompass the artistry in all walks of life. Now, I am actually not here to talk about this. This is not what I mean by “We Are ALL Artists”

What I would like to bring through into the awareness of individuals is the actuality of how we are all in fact Artists and that our current accepted and allowed definition of art does not/has not encompassed this understanding and so thus is currently operating in a very limited sphere of potential. And so I am here support the expansion of this definition of what it means to be an Artist because our current version of an Artist really fail in comparison to this new dimension I am about to begin introducing and that from my perspective is what really should be considered and lived by all in terms of bringing our current accepted view/definition of ‘artists’ into a new application, expression and living that will overall enhance ourselves and our living reality actually in a much more substantial way than how what our current accepted definition of art/artists is doing which is more and more becoming merely a point of entertainment and decoration than really enhancing our lives on earth.

Ok so what needs to be understood and considered is the Creative Process of ‘Self Creation’. Here each one stand as their own Artist in the process of creating themselves individually and so thus collectively the world as a whole.

From this perspective we are all actually Artists as we all carry the exact same responsibility act and ability of Self Creation.

One point I became aware of a few years ago which has now become more clear, is the relationship between who I am and what I create as my external art pieces such as paintings, sculptures, drawings etc. Now, I just so happened to fall into our current definition of what an ‘artist’ is, however don’t be distracted by this. The relationship is the same with everyone in terms of who they are in relation to what they create or essentially how they express, move, apply themselves in their external lives, the fundamental creative process actually being the process of self creation of who one is and how they exist within and as themselves where from there they then go on to become a doctor or an artist or a cook and express themselves through that particular skill providing various products and services.

What is being missed is the actual process of Self Creations as the process within which one actually creates themselves inside themselves moment by moment breath by breath.

We all have the same tools, we have the physical body, we have the mind, we have our thoughts. We have the words we speak, we have our actions, ect. When we are born we are given our canvas like a blank slate and then as we grow we begin the process of creating ourselves just like an Artist would start from nothing and paint a masterpiece. The problem is, if we really look at who we are and who we have created ourselves to be on an individual level there is no masterpieces that is actually existing. We have created ourselves within all kinds of patterns of abuse, judgements, deficiencies, limitations, deceptions, maxims that only serve self interest, fears, Jealousies, insecurities, conflict, anger, ect… And as a result, the world around us then thus take on this mold as well as we imprint and essentially duplicate who we are as individuals, and thus as a collective into and onto and as this world as the exact reflection of who we are.

Now its fascinating if you look at what actually exist in this world and the atrocities that are everywhere. I mean even taking the most obvious form of abuse and conflict such as war which is the biggest industry in the world, and so how could one logically defend themselves and say “I have not contributed to this”? And this is another point of awareness which we as individuals must start to develop is the relationship we have with our external reality in ALL its parts and how we are contributing to that on an individual ‘inner’ level. For instance if we really have a look at the nature of our thoughts on a day to day level or the nature of our experience. I mean if one really Self Honesty look at ones experience within themselves it is not actually roses and smiley faces, there is actually at times allot of frustration or friction or inner conflict, thus essentially an inner war. Now I am not saying its like this all the time, though I find many can relate to what I am describing as ones inner experience that at times they find themselves within.

We are all artists and we are creating ourselves in every moment as we decide what we participate within ourselves which then become a part of what we express and live in our lives.

I realized that when ever I made a piece of art that it was always an exact reflection of who I am and that is ultimately in essence what I would be placing out there into the world. That for me, was the real ‘soul’ of my art, so to speak. This “who I am” is the real ‘soul’ that was infused into all my art pieces and was my REAL MESSAGE that I was Living. In realizing this, I realize the importance of Self Change and Taking Responsibility for myself and creating myself in a way that is really honoring and contributing to Life in fact, because that is what I would prefer to have as the essence of my art that I create as the absolute exact reflection of who I am.

Art today is beside the point, it is in a way irrelevant compared to the actual real Creative Process that each of us is responsible for as the process of Self Creation on an Individual Level that is taking place in every moment, with each beat of our heart. This is where Real Artistry exist, and we are all equal in this.

Thus we must shift our attention and focus and awareness and bring into the fold this new dimension of what it means to be an Artist, because in this way we are ALL Standing on an Equal Platform from which to express ourselves as Artists in really supporting ourselves to first start to develop an awareness of how we are actually creating ourselves from moment to moment.

I mean, so much of this “Self Creative” process we have allowed to happen in a way automatically where we were not actually ‘HERE’ and Self Aware in this Self Creation Process, and so this is the point that we all must start to ALIGN within ourselves and getting to the point of Taking Complete Responsibility for our Self Creation Process in how we are creating ourselves in every moment. At this stage it’s like one day we wake up and I’ts like “how the fuck did I become this?” “How did I get here?” were are yet not at the same time of how we actually end up in the lives we find ourselves in. its like we created ourselves but we didn’t really know what we were doing and so it just kind of happened without us being a part of that process at all, and we end up later in life stuck in patterns that we developed early on in life that we did not really understand how such points would play-out later in life and create various different problems.

No more is the term/definition of “Artist” limited to just a fraction of the population. Rather let’s get down to business and bring this new dimension of ‘Art’ and what it means to be an ‘Artist’ into the Fold and thus start to actually bring some Real Substance and Value into the meaning of an Artist. So here we are expanding our understanding of what it means to be an Artist to where now it encompass Everyone on the planet. This point is critical. We actually REQUIRE each and every single individual here to actually start moving themselves as an Artist in the process of Self Creation and really learning how we are creating ourselves and our reality. Everyone has an equal role to play as they are occupying a space/point in our planet and thus is actually standing/existing as that ‘creative force’ if you will. As that “Creation Mechanism” The medium is no more paint on canvas, it is the components of the human being, of the physical flesh, the mind, the thoughts, the physical body. That which we all use as our components with which we create who we are and what is here as life, in other words, how we create our reality.

If we want our world as a whole to be a masterpiece, we must first start with ourselves and create ourselves into our own masterpieces.

So, I make paintings, but that is not the real art, that is not the real creative process, that is a skill I learned, like plumbing, or engineering, or teaching, the real artistic expression is the process of self creation that comes before the fact and is actually happening in every moment. That point has been missed. My Artistic Ability, just as the Artistic Ability of each one is actually existent on a much more fundamental level of our existence than we have considered. And it is here, within the Self-Creation Process that the Value of Artistic Expression integral to all human beings exist.

Now the next important question here is how then do we create ourselves. How then do we become participants and directors of our own creative process. Its like, so far we have allowed this process to be automated and so for instance allowed something like media and entertainment and popular culture guide and direct us and become our foundation in our process of self creation. Now we must Stand within a point of Directing Ourselves and our own Self Creation Process…But how? How do we do this if we have never done it before. Its like “what do I aim for” So in my next blog I will introduce/explore the point of what can be utilized within this process of Self Creation in terms of guidelines and principles that will assist and support self with becoming the best that one can be, this, ensuring that once one decide to take Self Responsibility for themselves and their Self Creation Process that they actually do this I a way where they really do create themselves and this world into a Living Masterpiece.